02.06.2012                      12.Siwan. 5772                      Nasso

Guter Rat:

Note to Syria interventionists: Be careful what you wish for

Half-baked U.S. initiatives could push the Alawites over the edge, along with their ballistic missiles and chemical weapons.

The slaughter of innocent women and children at Houla has elicited calls for American intervention in the ongoing Sunni uprising in Syria. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has urged that the U.S. arm the rebels, while Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman have advocated direct airstrikes against the Syrian regime. And while a Pew Research poll released Thursday indicated that only a quarter of all Americans believe that Washington should intervene in the Syrian conflict, a front page article in Thursday’s New York Times suggested that if a Srebrenica-type massacre occurs, even the reluctant Obama Administration may find itself forced to intervene….